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Dr Mitchell McCarthy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA Dr. Mitchell McCarthy is the co-inventor of a revolutionary organic transistor technology that allows organic semiconductors to compete with polycrystalline silicon in the backplane of AMOLED displays. A dilute carbon nanotube network serves as a porous source electrode that allows the channel of the transistor to be sandwiched between it and the metallic drain top electrode, thereby permitting submicron channel lengths without expensive high resolution patterning. The transistor can be stacked with an OLED creating an organic light emitting transistor (OLET). This technology recently set the new state of the art for OLETs and is a promising solution to deliver large area AMOLED displays. The device is termed a CN-VOLET (carbon nanotube enabled vertical OLET) and was published in Science in April 2011. Articles: June 2010 http://www.floridahightech.com/publication/e-newsletter/2010-06.html#spot1 http://news.ufl.edu/2010/05/04/night-led/ Aug 2010 http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/08/09/power-plant-waste-to-energize-oil-spill-cleanup April 28th, 2011 http://news.ufl.edu/2011/04/28/matrix-display/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42806680/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/#.TpRqinH42zY
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